This is an Iranian film that will perplex those who are familiar with Iranian cinema, and those who aren’t but have homogenizing fantasies. There’s a car owned by one of the protagonists, and two women friends conversing in it. There’s dialogue about politics, dictators, Argo, and, of course, a game with the different levels of reality and representation. And there’s a crash, and a mysterious and dapper man who keeps reappearing. There are also Camper shoes with different laces, an elevator that is forced into working, a woman who needs to pee in very short intervals, ideas about the benefits of walking, and a car-musical sequence worthy of Wayne’s World. There’s also a celebration of –and a reflection on– Western restrooms. And all this takes place in one single night, which director Ali Ahmadzadeh mysteriously establishes as a personal and surely social journey into tense, unstable, uncomfortable and disturbing grounds, in a glimmering path that goes from comedy to drama and through nocturnal urban fantasies and several repressions and liberations of slippery ambiguity.
Section: Competencia Oficial InternacionalD: Ali Ahmadzadeh
G: Ali Ahmadzadeh, Mani Baghbani
F: Ashkan Ashkani
E: Ali Ahmadzadeh, Ehsan Vaseghi
DA: Melody Esmaeeli
S: Hossein Abolsedgh
M: Sahand Mehdizadeh
P: Amir Seyedzadeh
CP: Afrand Film
I: Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani, Mehrdad Sedighiyan, Mohammad Reza Golzar
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He was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986. He majored in Architecture before studying Music at the Neinava Unversity and Filmmaking at the Young Cinema Society. His work as a director includes the short films Pinned (2007) and Collage (2011) as well as the feature-length film Kami’s Party (2013).
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
